This Roborace Car Is The Wildest Autonomous Design We've Ever Seen

Trending News: This Real Self-Driving Car Belongs In A Sci-Fi Movie

Why Is This Important?

Because this might very well be the future of racing.

Long Story Short

Formula E will soon commence their second season of Roborace, a competition involving autonomous racing cars. Roborace hasjust unveiled the design for one of their electric race cars, and it looks like the car a villain would drive in a Hot Wheels movie.

Long Story

Roborace, the global motorsports series, launches next year as part of Formula E, the race car competition involving vehicles that drive themselves. These electric cars not only promote autonomous driving, but also offers those in software development a competitive venue for showcasing their most prized innovations. In this series, everyone gets the same car, but it's what you do with it that counts — it comes down to whose software is better.

This stock design feels like something that didn't originate on Earth. To call it futuristic would be somewhat obvious, yet this Roborace car really looks more like a spaceship than anything else.

And there's a good reason for that.

The design was the work of Daniel Simon, the former Audi, Bentley, and Bugatti employee who also designed the Bubbleship in Oblivion; lightcycles in Tron: Legacy; as well as cars in Prometheus and Captain America. He's worked with Formula One and Disney too.

People like Simon and like-minded individuals in his industry are starting to experiment with changing the way cars are built while taking the wheel from humans. There's an advantage for humans who like cars, too, given this could advance the systems of their vehicles in the future.

Simon stated through a press release that the car generates “substantial downforce,” while mentions that his team is in the process of developing active body parts that are more organic and seamless than than those on the market today.

The Formula E season takes place sometime during 2016-2017, which include the first Roborace demonstrations.

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